Voluntary Forestry Certification Development Worker

Organization's mandate: To involve individuals from diverse ethno-specific communities who are economically and socially disenfranchised, particularly youth, children, senior and women, to take an active leadership role in implementing their own solutions to building healthy, sustainable communities through the use of participatory action-learning approaches.

The intern will join the Bolivian Council for Voluntary Forestry
Certification and will help with the "Forestry Eco Business" ("EcoNegocios
Forestales") initiative promoting Bolivia's role in areas related to rural
development, forest certification, conservation of the natural resources, and
market tendencies related to certified products.

In Canada
The intern is required to become acquainted with the environmental mandate
of FutureWatch, and to study the work being conducted by the partner
organization in Bolivia. They will research the country profile. They will
secure pre-trip medical inoculations and medical and travel insurance, as well
as participate in orientation and skills development seminars. Upon return,
he/she will finalize a report on their overseas experience in Bolivia. The
intern will participate in a job search workshop program and contact potential
employers.

Overseas
The intern will be responsible for organizing and documenting community
meetings, assisting the project/program coordinator in preparing documentation,
writing weekly and monthly reports; and coordinating workshops/education
programs related to forest certification, conservation of the natural resources
and market tendencies of certified products. Also the intern will be helping in
updating the database on the organization website.

CVF Bolivia is an organization dedicated to the development and promotion of the voluntary certification in Bolivia and seeks to guarantee the credibility of the national system of voluntary forest certification at national and international level; approving the norms and trying its acceptance on the part of the users, as well as the recognition on the part of the World-wide Forestry Council Stewardship (FSC).